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[ Have Flynn, absent his usual smile. He's all-business, and in one of the labs, though the shadowed backdrop of hexagon tiles probably doesn't look terribly familiar. For a moment he's not even looking at the camera, but at something past it, until he drags his attention back. ]

Evening, folks. Gotta skip the pleasantries tonight, I'm afraid- there's something you all need to see.

[ He taps at his ACE, and a beautiful little holo model of their end of the station shimmers into view like a heat mirage. There's the observation deck, the barter block, living quarters, the whole shebang, with tiny points of gold light scattered hither and thither- roughly marking the inhabitants. It turns slowly, a wireframe of cyan light, while he continues, ]

For the past five months, we've been inhabiting this portion of the former Ingress Station, making journeys out into the wider universe via the portal. Much of the structure outside our immediate area isn't in the best shape, so we've been pretty limited when it comes to moving around.

Now, check this out.

[ With an easy gesture, the drag of two fingers, the wireframe pulls back. More of the old station appears, bands of light branching out to form the structure- a massive one at that. Anyone forget how freakin huge this place is? Will get a reminder here. ]

For the past couple of months, I've been working with Erik and Wanda to get a new scanning device up and running- ah, here we go-

[ At a fair distance from their home, the wireframe quits assembling in the air. After that long expanse of nothing in the preceding build, gold pinpoints of light suddenly begin to bloom, lighting up like a Christmas tree. Flynn looks back to the camera, calm still, but for the glint of excitement in his eye. ]

I'll spare you all the technobabble of the how for the moment, but we're not alone on Avagi. We estimate there's maybe a couple hundred people a good two, three days' trek away. We know- or can make a pretty good educated guess -that they're humanoid, like us.

Right now, that's pretty much all we know. I've made a copy of our findings for anyone who wants a closer look.

[ Heyyy, a file pop-up, in the interests of transparency! For a second, though, he looks like he might have more to say, but changes his mind. He adds, ]

So. Who's feeling neighborly?

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Then that's what I'd advise. Let's see if we can't find some more actual information on this before we make any steps forward.

Are you volunteering, or should we ask for volunteers to do this?

Volunteering for research?

Not unless the ship's archives are compatible with my trump card. I'm not as good at accessing digital tech as others might be.

I'm not much for research, either, so it seems we need volunteers for that part of the project.

I'll ask my team. There's a few researches on our bench.

The terminals accessing the library's digital archives are open to everyone. No extra tech needed. The more eyes we have on this, the better.

Hey, good to know. Last I heard, they were pretty scrambled.

Guess I'm a little out of touch there.

No worries, man.

[ serene as heck ]

Anything we can find out about them will be useful. The last thing we should do here is go in blind.

I agree. Especially with this living situation as unstable as it is.

But for all we know, whoever this is could be thinking the same thing about us.

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